College of the Canyons is committed to protecting your privacy and making it more efficient to interact with our website. We recognize your right to know what information is being collected about you and how that information is used, as well as our legal obligations to limit collection and protect what we do collect. You do not have to give us personal information to visit our site. Sometimes we need information to provide services that you request, and this commitment of privacy explains our online information practices.

This policy is consistent with the provisions of the Internet Security and Privacy Act, the Freedom of Information Law, and the Personal Privacy Protection Law. College of the Canyons complies with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) as it pertains to student records.

This Privacy Policy applies to the canyons.edu website and governs data collection and usage. By using the canyons.edu website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

College of the Canyons does not collect any personal information about you unless you provide that information voluntarily by sending email or completing an online request, registration or application form.

​INFORMATION COLLECTED

The canyons.edu website collects personal information (first and last name, home or other physical address, email address, telephone number, or other identifiers that permit the physical or online contacting of an individual) only if specifically and knowingly provided by you. For purposes of this policy, "personal information" means any information concerning a natural person which, because of name, number, symbol, mark, or other identifier, can be used to identify that person.

The canyons.edu website also collects anonymous demographic information for statistical purposes and the analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in the various areas of our site.

When visiting canyons.edu, College of the Canyons automatically collects the following information about your visit:

Internet domain and IP address

Browser used, its version and operating system on which the browser is running

Web page from which you hyperlinked to the current web page

Date and time of the visit

Pages that were visited and the amount of time spent on each page

None of the automatically collected information constitutes personal information by the Internet Privacy and Security Act. This automatically collected information is collected for statistical analysis and is used to determine how users are interacting with our website and to maintain or improve the quality of the website. The automatically collected information is not collected for commercial marketing purposes, and College of the Canyons will not sell or otherwise disclose the information collected for commercial marketing purposes.

​EMAIL INFORMATION

During your visit to canyons.edu, you may send an email to College of the Canyons. Your email address and the contents of your message will be collected. The information collected is not limited to text characters and may include audio, video, and graphic information formats included in the message. Your email address and the information included in your message will be used to respond to you, to address issues you identify, to improve this website, or to forward your message to another College of the Canyons department for appropriate action. Your email address is not collected for commercial purposes, and College of the Canyons will not sell or otherwise disclose your email address for commercial purposes. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations or, as required by law, we do not share our email with any other organizations.

Please note that email is not necessarily secure against interception. If your communication is very sensitive, or includes information such as your bank account, charge card or Social Security number, you should not send it by email.

​ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

During your visit to canyons.edu, you may complete a transaction such as an online application or an online information request form. The information collected by College of the Canyons, including personal information volunteered by you in completing the form, application or transaction, is used by College of the Canyons only for the purposes for which it was provided and will not be shared with another entity except as prescribed by law. College of the Canyons may provide or distribute certain lists and statistical reports of regulatory information as provided by law, but no personal information is sold or distributed for commercial purposes.

​ECOMMERCE PRECAUTIONS

Some of our web pages allow you to make donations, register and pay for classes, etc. In those instances, we will collect the information needed to fulfill your registration or acknowledge your contribution, just as though it had been made on paper. That information will be maintained and protected in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a, which means that it will be secured in transit to us and once received. Your contributions are processed through a secure ecommerce solution.

​DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

The collection of information through canyons.edu and the disclosure of that information are subject to the provisions of the Internet Security and Privacy Act. College of the Canyons will only collect personal information through canyons.edu or disclose personal information collected through canyons.edu if the user has consented to the collection or disclosure of such personal information. The voluntary disclosure of personal information to College of the Canyons by the user constitutes consent to the collection and disclosure of the information by College of the Canyons for the purposes for which the user disclosed the information to College of the Canyons.

However, College of the Canyons may collect or disclose personal information without consent if the collection or disclosure is:

necessary to perform the statutory duties of College of the Canyons, or necessary for College of the Canyons to operate a program authorized by law, or authorized by state or federal statute or regulation;

made pursuant to a court order or by law;

for the purpose of validating the identity of the user; or

of information to be used solely for statistical purposes that is in a form that cannot be used to identify any particular person.

Further, the disclosure of information, including personal information, collected through canyons.edu is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Law, the Personal Privacy Protection Law and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

College of the Canyons may disclose personal information to federal or state law enforcement authorities to enforce its rights against unauthorized access or attempted unauthorized access to College of the Canyons information technology assets.

​PERSONAL INFORMATION

College of the Canyons may use your personally identifiable information to inform you of services provided and processes requiring your attention. College of the Canyons may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services.

​CONFIDENTIALITY

College of the Canyons is strongly committed to protecting personal information collected through canyons.edu against unauthorized access, use or disclosure. College of the Canyons has implemented procedures to safeguard the integrity of its information technology assets, including, but not limited to, authentication, authorization, monitoring, auditing, and encryption. These security procedures have been integrated into the design, implementation, and day-to-day operations of canyons.edu, as well as limited employee access to personal information collected through canyons.edu as part of our continuing commitment to the security of electronic content as well as the electronic transmission of information.

College of the Canyons secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. College of the Canyons secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

For website security purposes and to maintain the availability of canyons.edu for all users, College of the Canyons employs software to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise damage canyons.edu.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through one of College of the Canyons' social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram, this information may be collected and used by others.

​EXTERNAL LINKS

College of the Canyons encourages you to review the privacy policies of websites you choose to visit from links on canyons.edu. College of the Canyons is not responsible for the privacy policies or other content on websites outside of the College of the Canyons family of websites.

​COOKIES

Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by the user's browser on the hard drive of your computer. Canyons.edu utilizes temporary and long-lasting session cookies in certain portions of its website to manage your interaction activities, such as online orientation completion and to provide convenience or personalized features to save you time. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies via your browser preferences and have the option to decline. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of this site.

​DISCLAIMER

The information provided in this Privacy Policy should not be construed as giving business, legal, or other advice, or warranting as fail proof, the security of information provided through or other advice, or warranting as fail proof, the security of information provided through canyons.edu.

​LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

College of the Canyons attempts to maintain the highest accuracy of content on its website. Any errors or omissions should be reported. College of the Canyons makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the absolute accuracy, completeness or adequacy of the content of this website and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the content of this website. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this website or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. References or links on this website to any specific commercial products, processes or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name are for the information and convenience of the public, and do not constitute endorsement, recommendation or favoring by College of the Canyons, its employees or agents.

​CONTACT INFORMATION

For questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact the Web Producer via email at pio@canyons.edu or by regular mail at:

College of the Canyons

Attn: Web Producer, Public Information Office

26455 Rockwell Canyon Road

Santa Clarita, CA 91355

If you believe that College of the Canyons has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact the above. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

​CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

This Privacy Policy is subject to change without notice. College of the Canyons will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as the conditions and website change. College of the Canyons encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how College of the Canyons is protecting your information.​